Match Report
The table read 3rd (Sporting Cristal, 4 pts) against 4th (Rentistas, 3 pts), 1 points apart. Recent form told a different story for Rentistas: only 28th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 4th. Per game in the league, Sporting Cristal were scoring 0.5 and conceding 1.67, Rentistas 0.33 and 1.5, against a competition average of 1.41 goals per team per game.
Rentistas had gone 10 games without a win. The last-five ledger: Sporting Cristal 12/15, Rentistas 2/15.
The venue was Estadio Nacional de Lima in Lima, with room for 45,574 spectators. On the scoreboard, Sporting Cristal led 1-0 at the break; 1 second-half goal set the final 2-0.